• FelixCress@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities. (John Bazell)

          • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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            6 months ago

            ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’

            Is that something people wonder about? I doubt it.

            • Andonyx@lemmy.world
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              6 months ago

              A BTU (British thermal unit) is the energy required to raise 1lb of water 1 degree Fahrenheit…which may actually be even dumber, since it’s temperature sensitive to begin with. Dumbest of all, the Brits don’t use that unit very often. The US, and, I assume, Liberia use it all the time.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    She probably let him sit there and lie to her for an hour before trotting out the evidence, too.

    That’s a picture of a dead man.

    • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Legitimately a good argument here, the chain of custody has to be validated in court, having pictures of text messages is often dismissed due to how easy they are to be forged and how often people use other people’s phones, unless the police have your phone unlocked and can prove you were the one who sent the message or go directly to your phone provider who usually deletes data after the minimum time mandated so they don’t have to fulfill costly subpoenas.